Four amazing weather Phenomenons

If you are from Oklahoma then you must be familiar with Tornadoes. The amazingly unexpected weather of Oklahoma changes from minute to minute and no one can predict about weather’s condition even after five minutes.

After reading the title and above lines you must have realized about today’s topic. Our world is blessed with four different weathers i-e Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter but many other amazing and interesting phenomenons occurred due to different latitudes and mixed weather conditions like tornadoes, biological rains (Rain of fish) and many others . Let us explore some of them.

Halos:

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Halo is an amazing optical phenomenon formed near the sun or moon in very cold weather. It is formed by the ice crystals that used to float around them. There are many types of these halos that depends upon the formation of crystals. Reflection and refraction of light through these ice crystals form these amazing shapes.

Aurora:

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Aurora is another amazing phenomenon that is often occurred in the high latitude regions. When energetic charged particles collide with the atoms they form these amazing lights. This phenomenon usually occurred in Northern and Southern Latitude. One that occurred in Northern latitude is known as Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights while the other one is known as Aurora Australis or Southern Lights.

Mammatus Clouds:

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Mammatus Clouds (also known as mammary clouds), a rare phenomena applied to a unique and wonderful shape of clouds that resembles to hanging pouches in the sky. These clouds often indicates a strong storm or tornado. They are a combination of water and ice but often they are formed from ice.

Green Flash:

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One of the shortest and most common optical phenomena visible for just a second or two above the sun. It is occured shortly before sunrise or after sunset and can be viewed at horizon. They are also known as Green Flash.

Hope you liked this post, now tell us how many of you have ever observed at least one of these. We’ll be waiting for your response in comments.